The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain believes that Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, “almost wants to take us back to the 19th century” by considering a “unilateral aggression against whom he considers must be in his orbit of power.”
Arancha Gonzalez Layaformer Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Government of Spain, interviewed on Radio Euskadi’s ‘Boulevard’, has warned about the failure that a war in Ukraine would entail, for which she assures that “we must be prepared”: “I want to believe that sanity will prevail“.
The recently appointed dean of the School of International Affairs in Paris has warned that the war in Ukraine would be a “triple failure”, since it would mean “human carnage” that would also bring a “shock wave” in the world economy, and that it would mean ” a great collective political failure“. “We should all have learned from the past, from such a bloody 20th century, with two world wars in the same territory,” he said.
The former minister believes “it has very little international legitimacy” to try to reform international relations from the bases that Russia and China intend. In this sense, for Gonzáles Laya, Putin “almost wants to return us to the 19th century” by considering “a unilateral aggression against whom he considers must be in his orbit of power”referring to Ukraine.
Against Russia, González Laya places “a great transatlantic alliance” that seeks a “fragile balance between prudence and firmness and dissuasion and preparation”. According to the former minister, NATO “does not want” a conflict in Europe and “is going to do everything possible” so that it does not happen, but assures that “there is to be prepared if Russia decides to embark on unilateral aggression against Ukraine”.
González Laya has underlined the diplomatic work of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholtz to “bring Russia to a negotiating table”: “France and Germany are very aware of what a war in the heart of Europe means, since they were the main actors in the Second World War”. The former minister believes that the European Union does not want to “return to the state of the jungle” in international relations, “in which the strongest attacks the weakest”, and is committed to the international community facing together the challenges that it cannot solve a single country, such as climate change or the pandemic.
Source: Eitb
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